Essays about: "motherhood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 131 essays containing the word motherhood.

  1. 1. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Sara Calmius; [2024]
    Keywords : Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

    Abstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE

  3. 2. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Jane Mejdahl; [2023]
    Keywords : South Korea; Transnational adoption; Storytelling; Birthmothers; Everyday violence; Motherhood; Gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE

  4. 3. Unheard Women's Voices in Swedish International Higher Education: Personalizing Trajectories of Female Postgraduate Students and Motherhood

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Soovin Oh; [2023]
    Keywords : Student mothers; International graduate student mothers; Graduate students; Women in higher education; Narrative study; Learning experience; Intersectionality; Transformative learning;

    Abstract : This study comparatively analyzes the narratives containing six international graduate student mothers’ lived experiences. Stories about intersectional identities and their transformation process through new experiences were reconstructed by the participants as storytellers. READ MORE

  5. 4. Traces of the Past : Reclaiming Feminine and Maternal Identity in the Wake of Slavery, as Portrayed in the Novels Beloved and Jazz.

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Ira Elaika Konduk; [2023]
    Keywords : motherhood; individuality; mutuality; African Americans; Black feminist criticism;

    Abstract : Using Black feminist criticism, this study will examine the influence of the multifaceted yet simultaneous system of oppression on individuality and mutuality in the aftermath of slavery, as depicted in Toni Morrison’s works in Beloved and Jazz. Furthermore, this essay will explore the effects of the intersecting system of oppression on the characters’ identity formation. READ MORE

  6. 5. “I Just Hated Being a Mother” : Stories of Czech Women who Experienced Motherhood Regrets

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Anna Holemá; [2023]
    Keywords : motherhood; maternal regrets; feminism; reproductive justice; pronatalism; intersectionality; qualitative research; having children; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the experiences of women - mothers who regret having children. In mainstream society, it is assumed that mothers find their roles fulfilling and it makes them happy despite possible hardships. The topic of maternal regrets is not discussed enough, it is still a taboo. READ MORE